EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #BREXIT: The UK government has proposed 2021 as the end date for a “backstop” plan or temporary customs arrangement that may be put in place until a post-Brexit solution about the Northern Irish border with the Republic is reached.

2. #SHOOTING: Gardaí have conducted an in-depth search of Bray Boxing Club, where one man was murdered and two people were injured on Tuesday in a bid to find a motive for the shooting.

3. #ABORTIONS: More than 3,000 women and girls who travelled to England and Wales for abortions in 2017 gave Irish addresses, according to new figures released by the UK Department of Health.

4. #TERROR ATTACK: A man who drove a stolen truck into a crowd in Stockholm in Sweden last year, killing five people and wounding 14 others, has been given a life sentence.

5. #DISCLOSURES TRIBUNAL: Two senior newspaper editors have told the Charleton Tribunal that they were not given negative briefings about garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

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